Megafauna Mammals

Quick Megaloceros Facts:
- Lived from the Pleistocene through the Modern Period
- Lived on the plains of Eurasia
- Was as long as an elk
- Weighed as much as 10 white-tailed deer
- Was an herbivore
- Its antlers were longer than a car

Quick Glyptodon Facts:
- Lived from the Pleistocene through the Modern Period
- Lived in the swamps of South America and North America
- Was as long as a Volkswagon Beetle
- Weighed as much as a small car
- Went extinct 10,000 years ago

Quick Steller's Sea Cow Facts:
- Lived from the Pleistocene through the Modern Period
- Lived on the shores of the North Pacific
- Was an herbivore
- Lived off a diet of kelp
- Was longer than a killer whale
- Weighed three times as much as a killer whale
- Was an aquatic mammal
- Went extinct in 1768

Quick Andrewsarchus Facts:
- Lived during the Middle Eocene Period
- Lived in what is now Mongolia
- Was a carnivore
- May have fed on turtles and mollusks
- May have been the largest terrestrial carnivorous mammal

Quick Elasmotherium Facts:
- Lived from the Pleistocene through the Modern Period
- Lived in Eurasia
- Also known as the Steppe Rhinoceros and the Giant Siberian Unicorn
- May have been the origin of the unicorn myth
- Horn may have been as long as a human male is tall
- Twice as long as a black rhinoceros
- Weighed as much as a hippo
- Was an herbivore

Quick Indricotherium Facts:
- Lived during the Oligocene Period
- Lived on what is now the plains of Asia
- Was once known as Baluchitherium
- Is now also known as Paraceratherium
- May have had a prehensile lip
- Was as long as a semi-trailer
- Weighed more than 2-1/2 elephants
- Was an herbivore

Quick Arsinoitherium Facts:
- Lived from the Late Eocene through the Early Oligocene Periods
- Lived on the plains of North Africa
- Was as long as a black rhino
- Weighed more than a cow
- Was an herbivore

Quick Chalicotherium Facts:
- Lived from the Middle through the Late Miocene Period
- Lived on the plains of Eurasia
- Was about twice as tall as a refrigerator
- Weighed as much as 2 grizzly bears
- Was an herbivore

Quick Sivatherium Facts:
- Lived during the Late Pliocene Period through the Modern Period
- Lived in North America
- Was about as half the length of a London bus
- Weighed more than a grizzly bear
- Was an herbivore

Quick Megalonyx Facts:
- Lived during the Miocene through the Modern Period
- Lived in North America
- Was 3 times longer than a modern sloth
- Weighed as much as a leather-back sea turtle
- Was an herbivore

Quick Brontotherium Facts:
- Lived during the Late Eocene Period through the Early Oligocene
- Was longer than a white rhino
- Weighed more than a white rhino
- Was an herbivore
- Ate 120-200 pounds of vegetation a day